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    Friday, September 03, 2010

    CALIF 33% NEW ENERGY AMBITIONS WAYLAID

    California Fails to Pass 33 Percent Renewable Standard, But Arnold May Intervene; At midnight, one of the most ambitious plans for renewable energy turned into a pumpkin.
    Michael Kanellos, September 1, 2010 (Greentech Media)

    "…The California Legislature…failed to pass SB 722, a bill that would have required California public utilities to obtain 33 percent of their power from "new renewables," i.e., solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass, but not large-scale hydroelectric dams. Debate was proceeding on a companion bill when August 31 turned into September 1 and the session ended.

    "The failure is a blow to environmentalists, but also to outgoing Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has made growing California's green economy one of the major pillars of his administration. A.B. 32, the carbon regulation passed by the state years earlier, has created 500,000 jobs, according to Bill Weihl, Google's green energy czar."


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    "But…Arnold still has time before the election to call a special session of the legislature to get it passed. He's done it before…

    "The bill has widespread support among Silicon Valley executives. There are exceptions. Two semi-retired Valley executives -- former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and fired Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina -- are against it and are, respectively, running for Governor and the U.S. Senate. Whitman has also vowed to suspend A.B. 32…"


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    "California currently requires that the public utilities get 20 percent of their power from new renewables by 2010. The three big utilities -- PG&E, SDG&E, SCE -- will not make it. However, the law has a built-in extension and most will likely comfortably meet the expanded requirement. All three utilities have been aggressively signing contracts to get energy from solar thermal power plants and other renewable power providers. Independent power providers, though, have been having difficulties getting permits and funding for the projects.

    "Despite bills like A.B. 32 and a thriving startup culture, the bureaucratic tangles have hurt California's efforts to build a green industry. In this year alone, Mississippi and its Republican Governor Haley Barbour have wooed three green companies -- Soladigm, Twin Creeks Technologies and Kior -- with loans from the state and other ARRA-like stimulus packages to build factories in that state. (The bipartisanship on the state level in many areas is actually quite heartening.) The costs are lower and the permits are easier to obtain. Michigan…has become attractive for similar reasons, along with the added bonus of a large population of process and mechanical engineers…"

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